Noncredible effort during pediatric neuropsychological exam: a case series and literature review

Michael W KirkwoodDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Children s Hospital, and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USAChild Neuropsychol 16:604-18. 2010

The value of the WISC-IV Digit Span subtest in detecting noncredible performance during pediatric neuropsychological examinations

Michael W KirkwoodDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Children s Hospital, Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USAArch Clin Neuropsychol 26:377-84. 2011

..We also briefly cover non-sport-related interventions (eg, school support). With proper management, most children and adolescents sustaining a sport-related concussion can be expected to recover fully...

..The MSVT appears to have good potential value as an objective measure for detecting symptom invalidity in school-age youth...

Noncredible effort during pediatric neuropsychological exam: a case series and literature review

Michael W KirkwoodDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Children s Hospital, and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USAChild Neuropsychol 16:604-18. 2010

..The number of effort tests that have demonstrated utility in children pales in comparison to those available to the adult practitioner, although recent research now supports the use of several standalone measures with pediatric patients...

The value of the WISC-IV Digit Span subtest in detecting noncredible performance during pediatric neuropsychological examinations

Michael W KirkwoodDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Children s Hospital, Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USAArch Clin Neuropsychol 26:377-84. 2011

..Indeed, classification statistics produced in this pediatric sample compare favorably with those produced in many real-world adult patients...

..In addition, these deficits do not seem to be clearly associated with the intraoperative methods or postoperative events evaluated...

Social problem-solving skills in children with traumatic brain injury: long-term outcomes and prediction of social competence

Jennifer A JanuszDepartment of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University and Children s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USAChild Neuropsychol 8:179-94. 2002

..The findings indicate that children with severe TBI demonstrate selective, long-term deficits in their social problem-solving skills that may help to account for their poor social and academic outcomes...